NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Hadrian’s attack surface management capabilities are innovative primarily because they transform traditional offensive security practices by adopting a hacker’s perspective through advanced automation, aiming to make security teams faster and more scalable.

What differentiates Hadrian is its use of AI to reimagine how organizations map and monitor their external attack surface, delivering proactive and continuous visibility with the precision of an attacker’s perspective. At the core of this innovation is AI-driven asset discovery, which enables comprehensive and preemptive visibility across the digital estate. Hadrian uses predictive scanning to uncover likely domains and subdomains, and applies machine learning models trained on 32 technical and non-technical factors—such as logo recognition and text similarity—to detect shadow IT and previously unknown assets. This continuous scanning, which can run as frequently as hourly, ensures an up-to-date and accurate asset inventory.

Hadrian goes beyond standard vulnerability scoring by introducing contextual risk prioritization. Its proprietary ML-powered algorithms assess the broader business and technical context of each exposure—factoring in asset relevance, attacker attractiveness, discoverability, potential impact, and ease of exploitation. For example, a medium-severity vulnerability on a high-traffic business-critical asset may be reclassified as high severity, allowing security teams to focus efforts on the most consequential risks.
Further enhancing its value, Hadrian integrates real-time threat intelligence directly into its exposure validation capabilities. The platform monitors active exploitation trends through CVE feeds and uniquely incorporates infostealer malware data to surface leaked credentials, cookies, and active sessions associated with the organization’s domain. This enables early detection of account compromises and threat activity well beyond the traditional network perimeter.

To support ongoing protection, Hadrian enables continuous risk mitigation with fully automated processes across discovery, validation, prioritization, and remediation. It provides detailed, human-readable threat explanations and actionable, step-by-step remediation guidance. After fixes are applied, the system automatically performs regression testing to verify resolution, reducing operational overhead and increasing confidence in remediation.

Designed for agentless and scalable deployment, Hadrian’s cloud-native architecture works seamlessly across AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid environments. With no software to install and minimal configuration, organizations can onboard rapidly and scale to monitor millions of assets as their attack surface evolves.